Bug 41702 – xaos does nothing on startup

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description jsado_sc3 2004-02-15 13:32:50 UTC]

When I start up xaos a window pops up that says "Please wait while calculating Mandelbrot". I have waited a while and nothing appears. If I remember correctly, xaos was a pretty quick generator. top shows the computer is mostly idle (as does gkrellm) and xaos isn't even listed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




emerge info
Portage 2.0.49-r21 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.23)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.23 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-Os -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe -march=k6 -s"
CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe -march=k6 -s"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/src"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dfx 3dnow X alsa arts avi berkdb bonobo crypt cups encode esd evo
foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg lcms libg++
libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda
pdflib perl png python qt readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tetex tiff
truetype voodoo3 x86 xinerama xml2 xmms zlib"

[Comment 1 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2004-03-15 07:42:04 UTC]

Can't reproduce this with my configuration. Could you please re-emerge with just -O2 -pipe to check if we have to hunt down compilation flags or if this depends on some other package versions?

[Comment 2 jsado_sc3 2004-03-17 15:01:28 UTC]

Tried it. No change.

[Comment 3 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2004-03-17 23:45:23 UTC]

Very very strange. I recommend using "strace" to find out what the program does while it's sitting there.

[Comment 4 jsado_sc3 2004-03-18 04:12:55 UTC]

Created attachment 27546 [details]
strace of xaos.

[Comment 5 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2004-03-23 05:24:30 UTC]

Hm, looks like it's just sitting there, waiting for data from the X server. Btw X server, which XFree86 version are you using?

[Comment 6 jsado_sc3 2004-03-24 15:57:59 UTC]

I'm running XFre86 4.3.0-r3.

I am running dual head, with two different graphics cards, a Voodoo3 and some S3 Virge card. I was able to get it running by starting up in single head mode with just the voodoo3 to my main monitor (a Sun 21").

I will attach my XF86Config file.

[Comment 7 jsado_sc3 2004-03-24 15:59:10 UTC]

Created attachment 27963 [details]
XF86Config

[Comment 8 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2004-03-25 02:04:32 UTC]

I guess this has to be fixed upstream. I'll report it.